A more hysterical view of parental longing than The Girl in the Park comes in Julia, as a ferocious alcoholic, played with rumbustious flair by Tilda Swinton, becomes involved in a farcical kidnap plot that sees her crashing through the Mexican border with the grandchild of a multi-millionaire on the back seat. The film, with obvious nods to John Cassavetes's Gloria, is directed by Erick Zonca, the Frenchman behind The Dreamlife of Angels |(1998), making a partially successful return here. There's an outstanding abduction scene but Zonca veers wildly off course into a sub-Tarantino Tijuana nightmare, complete with moustachioed villains and croaky voices on the telephone.